This webinar unpacked effective multisectoral approaches to ECD for children with disabilities and the caregivers who support them, highlighted initiatives and resources from partners in the field, and presented scalable solutions to implementing partners and governments.

This brief presents the rationale, service model, and estimated costs for scaling up Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) services in Ukraine under the National Strategy to Ensure Every Child's Right to Grow Up in a Family Environment. It explains how multidisciplinary, family-centred services support children under four years of age with developmental delays, disabilities, or risks of developmental impairment by strengthening parental capacity and promoting children's inclusion in family and community life.

ISS and ISS West Africa, in collaboration with the child protection authorities of Burkina Faso, have been implementing since 2018 a pilot programme of specialised foster families for children living with disabilities. After six years of implementation, ISS has undertaken a capitalisation process to analyse and document this pilot experience and identify the main lessons learned, with a view to strengthening and potentially scaling up the project at a national level.

This report, from the UK All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Kinship Care, shines a spotlight on the experiences of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who are raised by kinship carers. The report reveals that both the child welfare system and the SEND system were not designed with kinship families in mind.

This COSP19 side event brought together allied movements and multiple stakeholders, including state parties, multilateral agencies, donors, and human rights organizations, to take stock of the situation, explore the status of the current deinstitutionalization agenda, and collectively take action for the inclusion of intersectional groups.

Raised by the shadows of slavery and colonialism, children with disabilities in Jamaica continue to face the inherited exclusion and inequality embedded in its national systems. This paper investigates the extent to which the rights outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) have been realized for children with disabilities over the past two decades.

This scoping review examines why individuals and families in Western countries choose to foster or adopt children with disabilities, identifying motivations such as altruism, personal values, commitment to caregiving, and perceived family enrichment. The findings highlight opportunities to strengthen recruitment and support strategies by aligning messaging and services with these motivations to improve care stability and outcomes.

This technical brief highlights parenting support strategies and interventions that can benefit parents and help them create better spaces for children with developmental delays and disabilities to thrive. The brief includes data on children with developmental delays and disabilities and features country examples from around the world.

This study explores the challenges faced by young people with disabilities in Japan after leaving residential care, finding they often struggle with adapting to new environments, managing their health, and accessing consistent support. It highlights the need for more structured, long-term support systems to help them successfully transition to independent living.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with disabilities are overrepresented in child welfare systems, yet little is known about their experiences; this study draws on yarning sessions with 46 kinship carers in Western Australia as part of the I-CaRe WA project. Findings highlight barriers to disability assessments and services, underscoring the urgent need for reforms, improved training, and better support to enhance outcomes for both carers and children.